638 - Ark Encounter's Decade-Long Disaster

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Politics, Religion & Spirituality, News, News Commentary

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🗓️ 3 June 2026

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Jessica and I spoke about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics.

— Ark Encounter's decade-long disaster: How the Creationist theme park failed on its promises (0:48)

— “Swallow it!”: A Christian "prophet" told a teen to eat a Bible page to receive God’s blessings. (20:11)

— A Connecticut law protects kids from abusive homeschooling parents. Republicans opposed it. (31:38)

— Colorado GOP candidate's wildest religious claims unravel in must-watch interview. (46:51)

— The Catholic Church protected a predator priest. The courts punished the whistleblower. (1:10:49)

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0:00.0	This is Hemet and Jessica.
0:01.8	And you're listening to the Friendly Atheist Podcast.
0:04.1	Please go to patreon.com slash friendly atheist podcast to support this show.
0:08.8	Get your ad-free bonus episodes, video episodes, everything, really.
0:13.1	You should do that.
0:14.3	We have so much to talk about.
0:17.5	Happy Pride.
0:18.6	Happy Pride.
0:19.3	I'm wearing a Pride shirt. Can you describe the shirt that I'm wearing it has a rainbow on
0:23.9	it there's a jr jr dinosaur for some reason yeah dinosaurs are waving a rainbow flag i got
0:29.1	terecks with his little arms i bought this right before i officiated my uh my friends uh wedding
0:35.4	to her wife and uh anyway one of my favorite Pride merch.
0:38.6	So happy Pride, everybody.
0:39.8	We love you.
0:40.8	And I wish all of the bigots out there very uncomfortable June.
0:44.8	Yeah, there you go.
0:46.1	That's what Pride Month is really all about.
0:48.5	Gently bullying me.
0:49.7	We get to talk about my favorite topic first, which is Ark Encounter.
0:53.7	Is Arkon Counter?
0:54.8	I saw this come up and I was like, Motherfucker, we're going back.
0:59.2	For new heads out there, like, eight or ten years ago when they opened this thing,
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